During the reformation of the area in the 1970s Wiesloch's inhabitants exceeded 20,000. Wiesloch became a "Große Kreisstadt" on January 1, 1973, when Altwiesloch, Baiertal, Frauenweiler and Schatthausen were joined with the town of Wiesloch to form the present municipality.

In 1077, Emperor Henry IV locked more than 100 of his enemies in the early church at Wizinloch (as the place was then known) on the site of the present Reformed church (Stadtkirche) and burnt the building down.[4]

The Codex Manesse includes four sophisticated Middle High Germanlyrics in the tagelied genre ascribed to the Minnesinger von Wissenlo (meaning “minnesang poet from Wiesloch”).[5][6] The identity of the Minnesinger von Wissenlo is not known, but the poet is conjectured to be Heinrich Swendinger von Wissenloch, who lived in the second half of the 13th century.[7] An illustration titled von Wissenlo in the Codex Manesse shows a lady, a child, and a knight, and includes an escutcheon which does not match that of the Von Wissenloch family.[8]

There are two statues of the Minnesinger von Wissenlo in Wiesloch town centre: one, by Hatto Zeidler from 1978, is in the square by the Reformed church (Stadtkirche) and shows the poet playing the lyre;[9] the other, an equestrian statue on a tall column, is part of a group by Karel Fron that was erected in the market square near the town hall in 1988.[10]

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Bavaria
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Bavaria is a free state and one of 16 federal states of Germany. Located in the German southeast with an area of 70,548 square kilometres and its territory comprises roughly a fifth of the total land area of Germany, and, with 12.9 million inhabitants, it is Germanys second most populous state. Munich, Bavarias capital and largest city, is the third largest city in Germany, the Duchy of Bavaria dates back to the year 555. In the 17th century CE, the Duke of Bavaria became a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Bavaria existed from 1806 to 1918, when Bavaria became a republic. In 1946, the Free State of Bavaria re-organised itself on democratic lines after the Second World War, Bavaria has a unique culture, largely because of the states Catholic majority and conservative traditions. Bavarians have traditionally been proud of their culture, which includes such as Oktoberfest. The state also has the second largest economy among the German states by GDP figures, modern Bavaria also includes parts of the historical regions of Franconia, Upper Palatinate and Swabia. The Bavarians emerged in a north of the Alps, previously inhabited by Celts. The Bavarians spoke Old High German but, unlike other Germanic groups, rather, they seem to have coalesced out of other groups left behind by Roman withdrawal late in the 5th century. These peoples may have included the Celtic Boii, some remaining Romans, Marcomanni, Allemanni, Quadi, Thuringians, Goths, Scirians, Rugians, the name Bavarian means Men of Baia which may indicate Bohemia, the homeland of the Celtic Boii and later of the Marcomanni. They first appear in written sources circa 520, a 17th century Jewish chronicler David Solomon Ganz, citing Cyriacus Spangenberg, claimed that the diocese was named after an ancient Bohemian king, Boiia, in the 14th century BCE. From about 554 to 788, the house of Agilolfing ruled the Duchy of Bavaria and their daughter, Theodelinde, became Queen of the Lombards in northern Italy and Garibald was forced to flee to her when he fell out with his Frankish overlords. Garibalds successor, Tassilo I, tried unsuccessfully to hold the frontier against the expansion of Slavs. Tassilos son Garibald II seems to have achieved a balance of power between 610 and 616, after Garibald II little is known of the Bavarians until Duke Theodo I, whose reign may have begun as early as 680. From 696 onwards he invited churchmen from the west to organize churches and his son, Theudebert, led a decisive Bavarian campaign to intervene in a succession dispute in the Lombard Kingdom in 714, and married his sister Guntrud to the Lombard King Liutprand. At Theodos death the duchy was divided among his sons, at Hugberts death the duchy passed to a distant relative named Odilo, from neighbouring Alemannia. He was defeated near Augsburg in 743 but continued to rule until his death in 748, saint Boniface completed the peoples conversion to Christianity in the early 8th century. Bavaria was in ways affected by the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century

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Hesse
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Hesse or Hessia is a federal state of the Federal Republic of Germany, with just over six million inhabitants. The state capital is Wiesbaden, the largest city is Frankfurt am Main, the English name Hesse originates in the Hessian dialects. The variant Hessia comes from the medieval Latin Hassia, the German term Hessen is used by the European Commission because their policy is to leave regional names untranslated. The term Hesse ultimately derives from a Germanic tribe called the Chatti, an inhabitant of Hesse is called a Hessian. The synthetic element hassium, number 108 on the table, is named after the state of Hesse. As early as the Paleolithic period, the Central Hessian region was inhabited, due to the favorable climate of the location, people lived there about 50,000 years ago during the last glacial period, as burial sites show from this era. Finds of paleolitical tools in southern Hesse in Rüsselsheim suggest Pleistocene hunters about 13,000 years ago, the Züschen tomb is a prehistoric burial monument, located between Lohne and Züschen, near Fritzlar, Hesse, Germany. Classified as a grave or a Hessian-Westphalian stone cist, it is one of the most important megalithic monuments in Central Europe. Dating to the fourth millennium BC, it belongs to the Late Neolithic Wartberg culture. An early Celtic presence in what is now Hesse is indicated by a mid-fifth-century BC La Tène style burial uncovered at Glauberg, the region was later settled by the Germanic Chatti tribe around the first century BC, and the name Hesse is a continuation of that tribal name. The ancient Romans had a camp in Dorlar, and in Waldgirmes directly on the eastern outskirts of Wetzlar was a civil settlement under construction. Presumably, the government for the occupied territories of the right bank of Germania was planned at this location. The governor of Germania, at least temporarily, likely had resided here, the settlement appears to have been abandoned by the Romans after the devastating Battle of the Teutoburg Forest failed in the year 9 AD. The Chatti were also involved in the Revolt of the Batavi in 69 AD, Hessia occupies the northwestern part of the modern German state of Hesse, its borders were not clearly delineated. Its geographic center is Fritzlar, it extends in the southeast to Hersfeld on the Fulda river, in the north to past Kassel and up to the rivers Diemel, to the west, it occupies the valleys of the rivers Eder and Lahn. It measured roughly 90 kilometers north-south, and 80 north-west, the area around Fritzlar shows evidence of significant pagan belief from the first century on. Excavations have produced a horse burial and bronze artifacts, a possible religious cult may have centered on a natural spring in Geismar, called Heilgenbron, the name Geismar itself may be derived from that spring. By 650, the Franks were establishing themselves as overlords, which is suggested by evidence of burials

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Rhineland-Palatinate
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Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of 19,846 square kilometres and about four million inhabitants, Rhineland-Palatinate is located in western Germany and borders Belgium, Luxembourg and France, and the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Saarland. The state of Rhineland-Palatinate dates from 30 August 1946, as of 201044. 9% of the population of the state adhered to the Roman Catholic Church,30. 6% to the Evangelical Church in Germany. 22. 0% of the population is irreligious or adheres to other religions, muslims made up 2. 5% of the total. The league of ShUM-cities in the later Rhineland-Palatinate comprised the Jewish communities of Mainz, Speyer, the Takkanot Shum, or Enactments of ShUM were a set of decrees formulated and agreed upon over a period of decades by their Jewish community leaders. Rhineland-Palatinate leads all German states with a rate of approximately 50%. Important sectors are the industry, chemical industry, pharmaceutical industry. Distinctive regional industries includes gemstone industry, ceramic and glass industry, small and medium enterprises are considered the backbone of the economy in Rhineland-Palatinate. The principal employer is the chemical and plastics processing industry which is represented by BASF in Ludwigshafen, boehringer, Joh. A. Benckiser, SGE Deutsche Holding, Schott Glassworks concludes the top 5 companies in the state. Rhineland-Palatinate is Germanys leading producer of wine in terms of grape cultivation, of thirteen wine regions producing quality wine in Germany, six are located in Rhineland-Palatinate, with 65% to 70% of the production of wine grapes in Germany having their origin within the state. 13,000 wine producers generate 80% to 90% of the German wine export, traditional grape varieties and a wide range of varieties developed during the last 125 years are characteristic for the region. Classical white varieties are cultivated at 63,683 hectares and these comprise the famous Rieslings 14,446 hectares, Müller-Thurgau, Silvaner and Kerner. The share of red varieties grew constantly during the last decades, dornfelder, a new cultivar, is the leading red grape cultivated on 7,626 hectares, which is more than a third. Blauer Portugieser and Spätburgunder show also appreciable cultivated shares, the state supports the wine industry by providing a comprehensive consultancy and education program in the service supply centers of the land. The Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding is fully financed by the state, many well known new breeds, such as Morio-Muskat, Bacchus, Optima and Regent have been created in these institutes. The worldwide leader in sparkling wine production, producing 245 million bottles in 2006, is the renowned Schloss Wachenheim Group and this company is headquartered in Trier, with operations in several locations in Rhineland-Palatinate

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Heidelberg
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Heidelberg is a college town situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. At the 2015 census, its population was 156,257, located about 78 km south of Frankfurt, Heidelberg is the fifth-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Heidelberg is part of the densely populated Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region, founded in 1386, Heidelberg University is Germanys oldest and one of Europes most reputable universities. A scientific hub in Germany, the city of Heidelberg is home to internationally renowned research facilities adjacent to its university. Heidelberg is in the Rhine Rift Valley, on the bank of the lower part of the Neckar in a steep valley in the Odenwald. It is bordered by the Königsstuhl and the Gaisberg mountains, the Neckar here flows in an east-west direction. On the right bank of the river, the Heiligenberg mountain rises to a height of 445 meters, the Neckar flows into the Rhine approximately 22 kilometres north-west in Mannheim. Villages incorporated during the 20th century stretch from the Neckar Valley along the Bergstraße, Heidelberg is on European walking route E1. Alongside the Philosophenweg on the side of the Old Town. There is a population of African rose-ringed parakeets, and a wild population of Siberian swan geese. Heidelberg is an authority within the Regierungsbezirk Karlsruhe. The Rhein-Neckar-Kreis rural district surrounds it and has its seat in the town, Heidelberg is a part of the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region, often referred to as the Rhein-Neckar Triangle. The Rhein-Neckar Triangle became a European metropolitan area in 2005, Heidelberg consists of 15 districts distributed in six sectors of the town. The new district will have approximately 5, 000–6,000 residents, Heidelberg has an oceanic climate, defined by the protected valley between the Pfälzerwald and the Odenwald. Year-round, the temperatures are determined by maritime air masses coming from the west. In contrast to the nearby Upper Rhine Plain, Heidelbergs position in the leads to more frequent easterly winds than average. The hillsides of the Odenwald favour clouding and precipitation, the warmest month is July, the coldest is January. Temperatures often rise beyond 30 °C in midsummer, according to the German Meteorological Service, Heidelberg was the warmest place in Germany in 2009

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Heilbronn
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Heilbronn is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is surrounded by Heilbronn County and, with approximately 123,000 residents, the city on the Neckar is a former Imperial Free City and is the seat of Heilbronn County. Heilbronn is also the center of the Heilbronn-Franken region that includes most of northeast Baden-Württemberg. Heilbronn is known for its industry and is nicknamed Käthchenstadt. Heilbronn is located in the corner of the Neckar basin at the bottom of the Wartberg. It occupies both banks of the Neckar, and the highest spot inside city limits is the Schweinsberg with a height of 372 meters, Heilbronn is adjacent to Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park and is surrounded by vineyards. Heilbronn and its surroundings are located in the part of the larger Stuttgart metropolitan area. The city is the center of the Heilbronn-Franken region and is one of fourteen such cities in the Baden-Württemberg master plan of 2002. The city is divided into nine boroughs, The oldest traces of humans in, the fertile Neckar floodplains in the Heilbronn basin aided early settlement by farmers and ranchers. The city limits of present-day Heilbronn contain many sites of Bronze Age finds, later on, but still before AD, the Celts already mined here for salt from brine. Under Roman Emperor Domitian the Romans pushed east away from the Rhine, a castle in todays borough of Böckingen was part of that limes, and nearby numerous Roman villas and plantations were built. Around 260, the Romans surrendered the limes, and the Alamanni became rulers of the Neckar basin, between the 4th and 7th centuries, the area became part of the Frankish Empire, and the first settlement was built in the general vicinity of the present center of town. In 741 Heilbronn is first mentioned in a document of the Diocese of Würzburg as villa Helibrunna. The name Heilbrunna hints to a well that is located not far from the basilica, in 1225 Heilbronn was incorporated into the Hohenstaufen Empire as oppidum Heilecbrunnen. Oppidum signified a city fortified by parapet and trenches, later during the 13th century, the Teutonic Knights obtained ownership of a large area south of Heilbronn which would remain owned by that order until German Mediatisation in 1805. Starting in 1268, the built the Deutschhof there as one of its residences. After the demise of the Staufen dynasty, King Rudolf I returned city status to Heilbronn in 1281, in addition to the advocate he put a council in place that was headed up by a mayor. Around 1300, the first city hall was erected in the market place, the Neckar privilege gave the city the right to modify the flow of the river in 1333, which meant it now had the right to construct dams, harbors and mills

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Heilbronn (district)
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Landkreis Heilbronn is a district in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Neckar-Odenwald, Hohenlohe, Schwäbisch Hall, Rems-Murr, Ludwigsburg, Enz, Karlsruhe, in the centre of it is the free-city of Heilbronn, which is its own separate administrative area. The predecessor to the district is the Oberamt Heilbronn, which was created in 1803 when the previously Free Imperial City of Heilbronn was incorporated into the Electorate of Württemberg, in 1926, about half of the Oberamt of Weinsberg was added. In 1938, it was recognized as a district, and in addition to the previous Oberamt, parts of the dissolved Oberämter Neckarsulm, Brackenheim, Marbach, the city of Heilbronn was not included into the district. In 1973, the Landkreise were reorganized, and part of the districts of Sinsheim, Mosbach, Buchen. Within the following two years 5 municipalities were incorporated into the city and therefore left the district, which got its current borders in 1975, the main river in the district is the Neckar, which flows through the district from the south to the north. The western part of the district belongs to the landscape Kraichgau, the east to the Hohenloher Ebene, Kocher-Jagst-Ebene, and the Löwensteiner Berge

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Karlsruhe (district)
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Karlsruhe is a rural district in the north-west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Rhein-Neckar, Heilbronn, Enz, Calw, Rastatt, Germersheim, Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, the urban district Karlsruhe, which contains the City of Karlsruhe, is located in the middle of the district, and partially cuts it into a northern and a southern part. The historic origin of the district is the Oberamt Karlsruhe, in 1809 it was split into one part responsible for the city Karlsruhe, and one for the surrounding municipalities. In 1865 however both parts were merged again to the Bezirksamt Karlsruhe,1938 it was split again, this time with the district of Karlsruhe for the surrounding part, and the urban district of Karlsruhe for the urban area. Since the founding of the Federal Republic, Karlsruhe has been the seat of the Federal Constitutional Court, the western part of the district is located in the Rhine valley. The area in the east belongs to the landscape of the Kraichgau, the Karlsruhe district partners with the following sister regions outside of Germany, Gwent, Wales, since 1978. Official city website Official municipalities website

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Mannheim
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Mannheim is a city in the southwestern part of Germany, the third-largest in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. Mannheim is among the twenty largest cities in Germany, with a 2015 population of approximately 305,000 inhabitants, the city is at the centre of the larger densely populated Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region which has a population of 2,400,000 and is Germanys eighth-largest metropolitan region. Mannheim is located at the confluence of the Rhine and the Neckar in the corner of Baden-Württemberg. The Rhine separates Mannheim from the city of Ludwigshafen, just to the west of it in Rhineland-Palatinate, Mannheim is downstream along the Neckar from the city of Heidelberg. Mannheim is unusual among German cities in that its streets and avenues are laid out in a grid pattern, the eighteenth century Mannheim Palace, former home of the Prince-elector of the Palatinate, now houses the University of Mannheim. In addition, Mannheims SAP Arena is not only the home of the German ice hockey record champions the Adler Mannheim, but also the well-known handball team, the Rhein-Neckar Löwen. According to the Forbes magazine, Mannheim is known for its exceptional power and was ranked 11th among the Top 15 of the most inventive cities worldwide. The New Economy Magazine elected Mannheim under the 20 cities that best represent the world of tomorrow emphasizing Mannheims positive economic, since 2014, Mannheim has been a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network and holds the title of UNESCO City of Music. Mannheim is a Smart City the citys electrical grid is installed with a Power-line communication network, the citys tourism slogan is Leben. The civic symbol of Mannheim is der Wasserturm, a Romanesque water tower completed in 1886 that rises to 60 metres above the highest point of the art nouveau area Friedrichsplatz, Mannheim is the starting and finishing point of the Bertha Benz Memorial Route. The name of the city was first recorded as Mannenheim in a transaction in 766. The name is interpreted as the home of Manno, a form of a Germanic name such as Hartmann or Hermann. Mannheim remained a mere village throughout the Middle Ages, in 1606, Frederick IV, Elector Palatine started building the fortress of Friedrichsburg and the adjacent city centre with its grid of streets and avenues. On January 24,1607, Frederick IV gave Mannheim the status of a city, Mannheim was mostly levelled during the Thirty Years War around 1622 by the forces of Johan Tillys troops. After being rebuilt, it was severely damaged by the French Army in 1689 during the Nine Years War. During the eighteenth century, Mannheim was the home of the Mannheim School of classical music composers, Mannheim was said to have one of the best court orchestras in Europe under the leadership of the conductor Carlo Grua. The royal court of the Palatinate left Mannheim in 1778, two decades later, in 1802, Mannheim was removed from the Palatinate and given to the Grand Duchy of Baden. In 1819, Norwich Duff wrote of Mannheim, In 1819, the climate crisis of 1816-17 caused famine and the death of many horses in Mannheim

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Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis
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Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis is a district in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Main-Tauber-Kreis, Hohenlohe-Kreis, Heilbronn, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Odenwaldkreis and Landkreis Miltenberg, the Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis is part of to the Rhine Neckar Area. The district was created in 1973 by merging the previous districts Buchen, at first it was named Odenwaldkreis, however to avoid confusion with the neighboring district in Hesse with the same name it was renamed in 1974 to be Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis. As the name suggests the district is located in the Odenwald mountains. The main river of the district is the Neckar

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Eberbach (Baden)
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Eberbach is a town in Germany, in northern Baden-Württemberg, located 33 km east of Heidelberg. Its sister cities are Ephrata, United States and Thonon-les-Bains, France, Eberbach lies at the foot of the Katzenbuckel, at 626 m the highest elevation in the Odenwald, in the Naturpark Neckartal-Odenwald, on the romantic Burgenstraße along the river Neckar. Eberbach includes the boroughs of Neckarwimmersbach, Brombach, Friedrichsdorf, Lindach, Rockenau, Badisch Igelsbach, Gaimühle, the border with Hesse runs through the borough of Igelsbach. Therefore, only the northeast half, called Badisch Igelsbach, of the borough belongs to Eberbach, the southwest half, called Hessisch Igelsbach, belongs to the Hessian municipality of Hirschhorn. The same is true for the borough Schöllenbach, the larger part of Schöllenbach belongs to the municipality of Hesseneck. Eberbach is a former Imperial Free City, founded soon after 1227 – when the castle was first mentioned – by German King Henry VII of the House of Hohenstaufen. After his pledge to the Counts Palatine in 1330, the old Free City belonged to the Electorate of the Palatinate, in 1803 it passed to the Principality of Leiningen, and since 1806 it has belonged to Baden. Until 1924 it was the seat of the authority office, in 1977 the town celebrated its 750-year jubilee. The historic old town, which is a precinct, with its four well maintained towers, many well kept timber-frame houses. Eberbach also lies on the Burgenstraße, which leads from Mannheim all the way to Prague, the Ohrsberg is a peak in Eberbach. It shapes the town and is 229 m high, the 2014 election was as follows, The mayor is directly elected for eight years. Description, Eberbachs coat of arms is described thus, Argent on lowered fess wavy azure a boar striding sable. This makes the coat of arms a rebus of the towns name – a canting coat of arms – since it shows a boar, Eberbachs flag is blue and white. As an Imperial City, Eberbach would have had leave originally to have its arms bear the Imperial eagle, the Imperial eagle was once to be found in the town wall at the upper gate. A photograph taken of it in 1909, along with the stone itself, are today kept in the Town Museum. The current coat of arms has been established to be from a seal impression dating back to 1387, the boars appearance, however, in todays arms, adopted in 1976, is clearly unlike the original. The name traces back to an old traditional story. According to the tale, an Eberbacher in an inn in Neckarwimmersbach was served a cuckoo and this he then proceeded to consume

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Angelbachtal
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Angelbachtal is a municipality in Kraichgau, between Sinsheim and Bruchsal, created in 1972 by the union of Eichtersheim and Michelfeld. The name Angelbachtal comes from the valley of the Waldangelbach, which flows through Kraichgau, Angelbachtal is near Heidelberg in the hills of the Kraichgau in the district Rhein-Neckar Kreis, Baden-Württemberg. The municipality lies in a valley of the same name, the river valley ends near Rauenberg, where it runs into the Upper Rhine valley. The mild climate benefits agriculture and people, the highest point is Roßberg at 283 metres. The lowest point is the bed of the Angelbach at 159 metres, the following cities and municipalities border Angelbachtal, clockwise from the North, Sinsheim-Eschelbach Sinsheim-Dühren Sinsheim-Waldangelloch Östringen Mühlhausen. With the exception of Östringen, all of these lie in the Rhein-Neckar Kreis. Angelbachtal consists of the boroughs of Eichtersheim and Michelfeld, Eichtersheim was first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex in 838. Around 1200 the village belonged to the knights of Steinach, from 1541 it became one of the holdings belonging to the barons of Venningen, who were part of the knight-canton Kraichgau. In 1806 Baden took control of Eichtersheim, Michelfeld was first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex in 831. From 1508 to 1806 Michelfeld was under the control of the Knights of Gemmingen, in 1806 Michelfeld became part of Baden. Because of the association of Eichtersheim and Michelfeld with Friedrich Hecker popular committees quickly formed and had great resonance with the population at large, the popular committee in Eichtersheim included 126 members, while in Michelfeld there were 87. This in view of the fact that Eichtersheim had at that time only about 150 families and it is also remarkable that the revolutionaries spanned the entire range of professions, for example, mayor, court clerk, businessman, farmer, innkeeper, etc. After the revolution failed, both communities suffered greatly from the punishments that followed, on 1 April 1972 Eichtersheim and Michelfeld were unified in the municipality Angelbachtal. The blazon of the coat of arms is azure, bar wavy gemel or, crossed Fleur-de-lys staves gules, the coat of arms unites motifs from the coat of arms of the two original villages and at the same time symbolizes the location and name of the community. The red lily staffs are from the coat of arms of Eichtersheim, the halfmoon with the face comes from the Michelfeld coat of arms which is a nod to the Knights of Gemmingen. The waves stand for the Angelbach, the flag is yellow and blue and with the coat of arms was bestowed upon Angelbachtal by the Rhein-Neckar district administration office on 30 April 1985. B39 also serves as detour U68 for the autobahn A6, the B292 runs from Bruchsal through Östringen into Angelbachtal-Eichtersheim toward Sinsheim and onwards in the direction of Mosbach. The B39 comes from Wiesloch over Mühlhausen through Angelbachtal-Eichtersheim and through Sinsheim in the direction of Heilbronn, both highways share the section Angelbachtal-Sinsheim

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Bammental
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Bammental is a municipality in Rhein-Neckar Kreis of Baden-Württemberg. Bammental is about 9 km southeast of Heidelberg and 13 km northwest of Sinsheim in the Elsenz valley, the borough of Reilsheim belongs to Bammental. Neckargemünd Gauangelloch Wiesenbach Mauer Gaiberg Bammental has been settled since pre-history, homo heidelbergensis found in neighboring Mauer, lived in the area around Bammental 500,000 to 600,000 years ago. The remains of a Roman road and Roman buildings bear witness to settlement by the Romans, at the end of the 8th century, there were multiple mentions of the Frankish settlement, Risolfesheim, in the Lorsch Codex. This settlement is the borough Reilsheim, Bammental started as an extension of Reilsheim at the turn of the millennium. From 1330 to 1803, Bammental belonged to the Electorate of the Palatinate of the Rhein, Bammental belonged to the Meckesheim tithe. After 1803, the settlement went to Baden, the coat of arms is based on an earlier court seal. The seal has been documented to have been in use since 1747 and it was officially recognized in 1894 by the General State Archive. The lion and the field of lozenges represent the Electorate of the Palatinate of the Rhine, the tree represents the etymological origin of the name Bammental, Baum im Tal. The flag is green and white and was awarded by the Ministry of the Interior in 1965, vertus, France since 18 June 1966 There is a museum of local history in the old train station. Bammental is on federal highway B45 between Neckargemünd and Sinsheim, the train line, which comes from Heidelberg over Neckargemünd and afterwards goes on to Sinsheim, has two stops in Bammental. The connection is part of the S-train system of the Rhine-Neckar region, at the old train station In Reilsheim Official Home Page

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Dielheim
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Dielheim is a municipality in the Rhein-Neckar district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Dielheim lies on the edge of the Kraichgau and the upper Rhine valley. The Leimbach flows East to West through the center of Dielheim and its boroughs Horrenberg, next to Diedelsheim and Schluchtern, Dielheim is one of the three oldest communities in the Kraichgau. The area was settled by the Romans, so one can assume the village was founded in the 6th century, the name used in the Lorsch Codex, diuuelenheim, may be the result of a reading or writing error made in the 12th century. The letters u and v were often confused, so one can assume the name was divvelenheim, the geminate vv stands for w, which was not commonly used at that time. Therefore, we theorize that the name has an origin in the name of a Frankish founder named Diwelo, after going through many changes, the spelling we see today, Dielheim, first appears in the 17th century. The rulers of town can first be identified after late in the 13th century, by 1272 the prince-bishops of Speyer had won half of Dielheim. Prince-bishop Adolf, who was in desperate need of money, pawned his half of Dielheim to Conz Mönch of Rosenberg in 1380, Conz Mönch took the other half of the village in the following years, thereby putting Dielheim in the possession of a noble for the first time. Conz Mönch, to ensure his control of the area, had a castle built on the Teufelskopf. This castle was more like a fortified farm than a proper castle. The isolated fortification could not be maintained for long and was described as abandoned. Less than 200 years later, the castle appears as a place name, after multiple changes in ownership and having been pawned many times, Dielheim finally came as a whole into the ownership of the prince-bishops of Speyer in 1512. The administrative seat of Dielheim for the prince-bishop was in Rotenberg, in the German Peasants War in 1525, many farmers from Dielheim fought on the side of the so-called Mob of Malsch against the oppression of the rule of the prince-bishops. After the defeat of the revolt, the village had to suffer harsh penalties, in the Thirty Years War, Dielheim was almost completely destroyed by the troops of the Electorate of the Palatinate of the Rhine, the Holy Roman Empire, and Sweden. The region recovered only slowly from the loss of people and buildings, hardly had the essentials of the village been rebuilt when the War of the Palatinian Succession broke out. In 1689 the French general Mélac reduced Dielheim to ashes, for this reason no building from the time of this catastrophe remains today. From the middle of the 18th century the population of the region boomed, the overpopulation of the region led to property being split into ever smaller pieces due to inheritance. The fields were divided into smaller plots that could no longer support or feed the people on the land

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Dossenheim
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Dossenheim is a municipality in the Rhein-Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on Bergstrasse and Bertha Benz Memorial Route, Dossenheim lies 5 kilometers north of Heidelberg along the Bergstraße at the foot of the Odenwald. Dossenheim borders Heidelberg, Ladenburg, and Schriesheim, the hamlet Schwabenheim belongs to Dossenheim. Dossenheim was first mentioned in the Lorsch codex in 766,1130 is the first mention of the noble family Wolfsölden-Schauenburg, who ruled the area from the Schauenburg. After this family died out in 1280, the sold the lands to the electors of the Palatinate of the Rhine of Heidelberg in 1303. As early as 1319, the archbishopric of Mainz had won all the rights that the fief of Schaenberg had pawned to the knights of Handschuhsheim. After a long period of rivalry between the Archbishop of Mainz and the Palatinate of the Rhine, until Frederick I conquered the area for the Palatinate, in the Landshut War of Succession, the Hessian landgrave destroyed Dossenheim in 1504. During the Thirty Years War Tillys troops, more than others, after seizing the capital Heidelberg, Dossenheim belonged to the Archbishop of Mainz for a short time. However, as part of the Bergstrasse Cease-fire of 1650, Dossenheim was returned to the Palatinate, in the Dutch War and in the War of the Grand Alliance French troops set fire to numerous building in 1674,1689, and 1693. In 1714, Lothar Franz von Schönborn, the archbishop of Mainz renounced all claims to Dossenheim forever, in 1803 the Palatinate was dissolved and Dossenheim became part of Baden. In 1925 Schwabenheim was annexed to Dossenheim, the council of Dossenheim has 22 members elected by direct suffrage for five years, in addition to the presiding mayor. The seat distribution after the elections of 2009 is as follows. The Mayor of Dossenheim is Hans Lorenz, 1963–1979 Heinrich Schumacher 1979–1995 Peter Denger since 1995 Hans Lorenz. The coat of arms comes from a seal from the year 1495 upon which appeared a grape vine. In 1901 it was awarded by the General State Archive. The flag is green and white, the date it was chosen is unknown. Le Grau du Roi, France Local attractions include a swimming pool. Dossenheims Kermesse occurs on the third Sunday in September every year, in Dossenheimer tradition this is a street festival

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Edingen-Neckarhausen
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Edingen-Neckarhausen is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the bank of the Neckar. Edingen-Neckarhausen lies about 12 km south-east of Mannheim and somewhat closer northwest of Heidelberg, directly on the opposite bank of the Neckar is the city of Ladenburg. The municipality consists of two boroughs, Edingen Neckarhausen The borough of Neu-Edingen combined with Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld create a big village, the border between the two can only be identified by the town demarkation signs in the middle of the village. Edingen and Neckarhausen have been settled since the time of the Celts, because of the mild climate, Edingen was first mentioned in the Lorsch codex on 17 November 765 in a grant document of the Lorsch Abbey, in which the village was granted to Lopodonum. The manor of Edingen belonged to the Imperial Abbey of Lorsch, at the end of the 12th century, the count palatine took over lordship of the town until 1802. Shortly after Edingen, Neckarhausen was mentioned in the Lorsch codex for the first time on 26 June 773, between the end of the 14th century and 1705, the Bishopric of Worms and the counts Palatine shared lordship over the town. Afterwards, lordship fell to the Palatinate alone, as part of his reward, he was raised to a count in 1790. Neckarhausen became the seat of the young dynasty. Before the village are the clan holdings and they are both buried in the local graveyard. In 1803 both villages became part of Baden, on 3 May 1975 the villages were united in the municipal reform as Edingen-Neckarhausen. The last municipal election was held 13 June 2004, the municipal council is made up of 22 members. With the union of Edingen and Neckarhausen the coat of arms was remade, the cross of Lorsch refers to the historic relationship with the Lorsch Abbey. The lion of the Palatinate was already present on the coat of arms of Neckarhausen, the flag is red and white and together with the coat of arms was awarded by the Rhein-Neckar district administration office in 1977. Plouguerneau, France since 1967 The municipality lies on the Bundesautobahn 656, connecting Mannheim and Heidelberg, as well as the state road, across the A656, just a few minutes away, are the A5 and A6. Edingen-Neckarhausen is connected to Ladenburg on the side of the Neckar, by a regular ferry and a railway bridge. Public transit is handled by the Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH, the downtown areas of Mannheim and Heidelberg can be reached in 20 and 15 minutes, respectively. The municipality belongs to the transit authority Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar, in the borough of Edingen, you can find a train station of the MVV OEG AG next to a siding and an engine house

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Epfenbach
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Epfenbach is a municipality in south western Germany. It is located between Heidelberg and Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in the state of Baden-Württemberg, the municipality belongs to the municipal association of Waibstadt and the tourist region Brunnenregion. The meaning of the name Epfenbach is disputed and it could be derived from a person or plant name. Epfenbach is in Kraichgau on the edge of the little Odenwald, Epfenbach first appears in documents in the year 1286 as Epphinbach on a bestowal document of the Schönau Abbey. In 1325, the manor was sold to the Archbishopric of Mainz, in the centuries to follow, ownership of the manor changed often. In 1622, Count Tilly burned down the village, in 1643, the Johannes-Kirche in Epfenbach was besieged by 400 horsemen of Lorraine. Legend has it that the Schultheiß at the time, one Hans Dengel, was shot in the head, by end of the Thirty Years War, only 15 of the 72 original inhabitants still lived in the village. In 1796, Carl Ullmann was born, Carl was named by the Grand Duke of Baden as prelate and director of the high church council of the State Church of Baden in 1857. In 1799, the village was plundered by French troops, later in 1812, citizens of Epfenbach took part in the French invasion of Russia under Napoleon. Two years after the union of Lutheran churches in Baden in 1823, the reformed, in 1876, the Simultanschule was instituted. The municipal council includes 12 members in addition to the chairperson, the coat of arms is derived from a court seal which has been shown to have been first used 1752. The apple and wavy bar suggest the local folklore referring to the origin of the name has some truth to it, in 1901 the municipality adopted the coat of arms. The flag is blue and white and was awarded in 1978, the Epfenbach Museum of Local History shows how a farm household looked around the year 1850. Displayed are things such as the clothes and tools of the local farmers, the museum is located in a classic restored half-timbered house belonging to a former overseer from the abbey in the year 1718. Epfenbach sits on the L530 state road

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Eppelheim
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Eppelheim is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg bordering Heidelberg. It belongs to the district Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Eppelheim is situated in the valley of the Upper Rhine southwest of the hills of the Odenwald and directly on the Bundesautobahn 5. The location of the city within the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis is almost completely surrounded by the district of Heidelberg. Eppelheim borders the Heidelberg boroughs of Wieblingen in the North, Pfaffengrund in the East, to the West lies the municipality of Plankstadt, also within the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis. Another center in the Rhein-Neckar metropolitan region is Mannheim, about 20 km northwest of Eppelheim, Eppelheim does not have any boroughs, but locals orient on the directions of the compass and refer to the parts of the city that way. However, there are no exact demarcations, archaeological finds from the neolithic, the bronze age, the iron age, and the early middle ages indicate that the area where the city is located was inhabited by people for a long time. Eppelheim was first mentioned in historical documents pertaining to a grant in the year 770 in the Lorsch codex under the name Ebbelenheim, from the 11th century Eppelheim was a typical small village of the Electorate of the Palatinate. The number of inhabitants remained continuously under 150 up until the 18th century, among the reasons for this was the destruction of Eppelheim in 1689. The village, like so many others in the area, was burned down by French troops on 28 January during the War of the Grand Alliance, Eppelheim was rebuilt and experienced a steady increase in population. In the 20th century the population boomed, the population went from 2644 in 1905 to 13,904 in 1997. The people of Eppelheim chose masonry as a more than the average German in the 20th century. In 1908 there were over 400, Eppelheim is known in the region as a mason community. In 1998 Eppelheim was elevated to city status by the State of Baden-Württemberg, the municipal council of the city of Eppelheim has 22 members. The coat of arms in its current form was introduced in 1900 and it is based on a lost seal from 1689. The coat of arms matches inescutcheon of the old coat of arms of the Electorate of the Palatinate, the flag is yellow and red and was awarded by the Ministry of State in 1959. The tax on the business is an important factor in determining the city budget. The company Wild has its headquarters in Eppelheim, Eppelheim is directly on the Bundesautobahn 5 and has access through the Heidelberg/Schwetzingen exit. The city is connected to the university city, Heidelberg by the well travelled streetcar line 22

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Eschelbronn
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Eschelbronn is a village with 2,597 inhabitants in the Rhein-Neckar district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Eschelbronn was already mentioned in the year 788/789 in a deed of donation from the monastery of Lorsch, century it became property of the diocese of Speyer. In 1267 a castle of wood was built and later in 1375 was transformed to a castle of stone. In 1526 the population were converted to Lutheranis, in 1803 Eschelbronn became a part of Baden. 1807 the village joined the district of Waibstadt and was assigned 1813 to the district of Sinsheim, in former times the main income source from the inhabitants was agriculture, however later in the 18th century the weaving mill of lines became more and more important. Since the end of the 19th century Eschelbronn is well known for its manufacturing industry

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Gaiberg
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Gaiberg is a municipality in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis of Baden-Württemberg. The state certified climatic health resort sits on the border of the Odenwald, to the south of Gaiberg lies Leimen. To the north and west lies Heidelberg, the settlement which appeared in the late Middle Ages, was bought by Electorate of the Palatinate in 1419. In 1803 Gaiberg became part of Baden, Gaiberg belongs to the Neckargemünd municipal association. The seat of the association is in Neckargemünd. In addition to the chairperson and mayor, there are 12 councilors, the coat of arms is based on a court seal from 1751. It depicts a column next to a tree, the meaning of the symbols is not explained. In 1900 the municipality adopted the coat of arms at the suggestion of the General State Archiv, the flag is green and white and was awarded by the Ministry of the Interior in 1956. The municipality connect to the highway net by 8 km of state road to the exit Heidelberg/Schwetzingen of Bundesautobahn 5. In Gaiberg there is a primary and secondary school with a vocational school, schools for further education can be found in Leimen and Heidelberg. There are Gymnasien in Neckargemünd and Bammental

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Heiligkreuzsteinach
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Heiligkreuzsteinach is a town in the district of Rhein-Neckar in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is located about 25 km North-East of Heidelberg, in 1293 the community was for the first time officially mentioned. Until 1525 the administration of the town changed several times, starting with 1525 it became part of the Electoral Palatinate. Currently there are the urban districts which form the mother community, Heiligkreuzsteinach, Lampenhain. The town council has twelve members and is presided by the mayor, the mayor is elected for eight years without term limitations. However, there is a retirement limit which was increased to 71 years. The current mayor of Heiligkreuzsteinach is Ms. Sieglinde Pfahl, who was first elected in 2013, there are two Nursing Homes and one Kindergarten in the village. In addition there are various cultural and athlectic organisations. The town has a normal German Infrastructure which includes an Elementary School, small shops, two regional buslines connect Heiligkreuzsteinach with Heidelberg. Among the prominent sons of the village is Herman Lehlbach who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 to 1889

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Hemsbach
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Hemsbach is a town in the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the Bergstraße,18 km northeast of Mannheim, hemsbach has restored one of the synagogues that flourished in the town before Kristallnacht. Hemsbach is twinned with the English town of Wareham, Dorset, carl Mayer Freiherr von Rothschild, the towns first official honorary citizen

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Hockenheim
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Hockenheim is a town in northwest Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 20 km south of Mannheim and 10 km west of Walldorf. It is located in the Upper Rhine valley on the touristical theme routes Baden Asparagus Route, the town is widely known for its Hockenheimring, a motor racing course, which hosted over 30 Formula One German Grand Prix races since 1970. It is twinned with the French town of Commercy, the German town of Hohenstein-Ernstthal in Saxony, Hockenheim is located in the Upper Rhine valley on an old trade route from Frankfurt to Basel. The brook Kraichbach divides the town in an eastern and a western area. Hockenheims total municipal area covers 3,484 ha, with ca.28.8 percent used for settlement and transportation, the remaining area consists of ca.22 percent forests and ca.2.4 percent rivers and seas. The municipal area is divided into two natural regions, the Rheinaue to the west and the slightly higher Niederterrasse to the east. The so-called Hockenheimer Rheinbogen is an area of the Rhine. 30 parts of it with a total of 656 ha are under nature conservation, an additional area three times larger is designated as landscape conservation area, with less strict usage limitations. The central urban area forms one unit and is divided into five districts for statistical purposes. Stamped bricks of the Roman Legio XIV Gemina Martia Victrix were found 1984 in a kiln during an excavation in Hockenheim. The stationing of this legion near Mainz from 71AD until 92AD indicates a settlement in this area. Hockenheim was first mentioned 769 as Ochinheim in a document of the Lorsch Codex. The name Hockenheim itself appeared first in 1238 in official documents, in the 17th century Hockenheim was severely devastated twice by French troops,1644 in the Thirty Years War and 1674 in the Franco-Dutch War. During this period the cultivation of hops in the area was partly replaced with tobacco. 1803 the Electoral Palatinate was dissolved and the village was integrated in Baden, with the growing tobacco crop the village flourished and was awarded town rights on 22 July 1895 by Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden. With the beginning of the 20th century asparagus cultivation replaced most of the hops industry. At 29 May 1932 the Hockenheimring was opened with a motorcycle race, after World War II the decline of the cigar industry had begun, but Hockenheim was already known for its Hockenheimring and could expand in other industrial branches. January 1973 Hockenheim was assigned to the newly formed Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district, in 1991, Hockenheim was the host of the 11th Baden-Württemberg State Horticultural Show

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Ilvesheim
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Ilvesheim is a town of about 8700 residents in the district of Rhein-Neckar in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is one of the first towns located along the famous Bertha Benz Memorial Route, Ilvesheim was first mentioned in a deed of the Lorsch Abbey from March 14,744 AD, as a village called Ulvinisheim. The ending heim means it was founded during the Frankish conquests and it is not clear whether the current name is from a then-resident called Ulvinius or after a small tributary creek that empties into the Neckar River, called Ilbe. Emperor Barbarossa transferred the Lorsch possession to his brother, the Palatinate Count Conrad in 1155. Since the end of the 13th century, Ilvesheim indisputably belonged to the Kurpfalz and was a part of the Seckenheimer concentrum, the area started as a fiefdom under the Lords of Strahlenberg. In the middle of the 14th century, it fell to the squires from Erligheim, from 1550-1654 the county of Steinach, the town was heavily destroyed during the Nine Years War in 1689. After the breakup of the Palatinate in 1803, Ilvesheim eventually transferred to the Grand Duchy of Baden, in 1863, it fell under the district office of Mannheim, which later became Mannheim County. Today Ilvesheim is its own independent municipality, but part of the Heidelberg licensing district, in the 18th century Ilvesheim exhibited a typical size for country towns in the region. Circa 1850, there was a surge in growth, after World War II the town took in more than 500 displaced persons. Between 1871 and 1961 Ilvesheim had the fastest growth rate in the district of Mannheim, after falling to only 6862 residents in 1997, the community has rebounded with an upswing in construction of new housing. Ilvesheim lies predominantly on the northside of a large natural loop on the Neckar river and these days, the island effect is becoming less prominent as housing construction expands to the north of the canal. There is also a section of land and group of houses on the east side of the Neckar river called Neckarplatten which falls under Ilvesheims administration. Overall the district covers 589 acres,35.3 percent of which consists of housing and roads,6.8 percent water, Ilvesheim actively uses its agricultural lands. Ilvesheim is in a part of the Neckar river water protection area, there is a makeshift beach located on the north side of the river, just across from the Seckenheim Schloss, which is frequented during the summer months. Fishing outside of the area is quite popular, in Nord Ilvesheim, there is a nature recovery zone with a lake cordoned off by a fence and trees. This project was started years of pollution and littering destroyed the natural environment. Visitation to the area is not open to the general public, along the Neckar river there is a hard-surfaced walking/biking path, elevated above the bank, which makes up a portion of the Neckar recreational path. The path skirts housing as well as the sports center with soccer fields

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Ladenburg
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Ladenburg is a town in the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the bank of the Neckar,10 kilometres east of Mannheim. Ladenburgs history dates back to Celtic and Roman ages, in Roman times it was called Lopodunum. Emperor Trajan elevated it to the status of a city in the year 98 and its old centre dates back to the Late Middle Age. Ladenburg is located on Bertha Benz Memorial Route, list of mayors, Johann Friedrich von Seilern, son of a dyer and later Imperial Count, was born in Ladenburg. Johann Christoph Sauer, the first German-language printer and publisher in North America, was born in Ladenburg Franz Xaver and Friedrich von Hertling, Bavarian war ministers, were born in Ladenburg. Michael Frey, composer, violinist and conductor Lambert Heinrich von Babo, chemist Karl Benz, inventor of the automobile, martin Hartmann, lawyer, head of the Baden office Rudolf Agricola, economist and journalist The first time this village was populated was between 3000 and 200 BC. It then consisted of a Celtic settlement Lopodunum, in the year 40 the Romans populated the town as a farmer/military outpost and kept its Celtic name. The local territory formed the district of Civitas Ulpia Sueborum Nicretum. In 74 AD the Romans founded the town Auxiliarkastelle which included a supply-keeping town, the garrison included a regiment of cavalry made up from the Canaefaten. Ladenburg is twinned with, Garango, Burkina Faso Paternion, Austria Automuseum Dr. Carl Benz Bertha Benz Memorial Route

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Leimen (Baden)
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Leimen is a town in north-west Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is about 7 km south of Heidelberg and the third largest town of the Rhein-Neckar district after Weinheim and Sinsheim and it is also the areas industrial centre. Leimen is located on the Bergstraße and on the Bertha Benz Memorial Route, in the context of a communal reform in the 1970s, Leimen was newly created from the villages Leimen, Gauangelloch and Sankt Ilgen. In 1981, the government of Baden-Württemberg granted Leimen the privilege to be called town. When Leimens population exceeded 20,000 in 1990, the city applied for elevation to a Große Kreisstadt which was granted by the state government on April 1,1992. The first documentary record of Leimen is from 791, when both the Lorsch Abbey and the Diocese of Worms owned land there. First records of the districts are from 1270 for Gauangelloch,1312 for Lingental, around 1300 for Ochsenbach and 1100 for Sankt Ilgen, then called bruch, an Old High German word for bog. In 1262, the lords of Bruchsal gave Leimen to the Electorate of the Palatinate as a fiefdom and from 1464 on Leimen was part of the Palatinate, in 1579, Leimen was granted the right to celebrate an annual fair and became a market place in 1595. In 1674, Leimen was partially destroyed, johann Ludwig Waldbauer 1838–1844 Heinrich Seitz 1845–1876 Jakob Rehm III. Reinwald Leimen consists of the Leimen, nowadays called Leimen, despite its industrial roots, Leimens downtown has maintained a certain quaintness. It is a town, with a regular cycle of festivals. At Ochsenbach, there is the NDB NKR.1 Clemens von Grumbkow, rugby union player Akeem Vargas, basketball player, grew up in Leimen Ramez Khayat, World traveler and trailblazer. Alberto Lucini, American foreign policy expert, grew up in neighboring Kirchheim and spent a significant amount of time in Leimen Mafra, Portugal, is a twin town of Leimen

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Malsch (bei Wiesloch)
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Malsch is a town in the district of Rhein-Neckar in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Malsch is located in the corner of the Kraichgau south of the cities of Wiesloch. The town is located at the foot of the Letzenberg, a hill of 244 m height, adjacent towns are, starting from the north clockwise, Malschenberg, Rauenberg, Mühlhausen, Rettigheim, Östringen, Bad Schönborn, Kronau und St. Leon-Rot. Gemeinde Malsch Bilder rund um Malsch und Letzenberg Natur- und Landschaftsschutzgebiet Hochholz-Kapellenbruch

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Mauer (Baden)
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Mauer is a village in south western Germany. It is located between Heidelberg and Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in the state of Baden-Württemberg, mauer is the location where the first remains of Homo heidelbergensis were found. The remains, a jaw, were discovered in 1907 in the quarry by Daniel Hartmann. On 1 June 2012, John Ehret took office as mayor and he is the first black mayor in Baden-Württemberg and thought to be the first black mayor in Germany in modern times

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Meckesheim
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Meckesheim is a village in south western Germany. It is located between Heidelberg and Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in 772 and 822 Meckesheim was mentioned for the first times as Heim des Mechino or Mechinos Heim in the Codex of Lorsch. The Martins Chappel which ruins are east of the village is one of the oldest churches in the region, since 1330 Meckesheim and the villages around was a part of the Electorate of the Palatinate. After the end of this territory in 1803 the village became a part of Baden, Meckesheim station is connected via the Badenian Odenwald line from Heidelberg to Mosbach and Würzburg. In 1868, a branch to Bad Rappenau was added and in 1869 completed to Bad Friedrichshall, in this way there were now a connection to Stuttgart via Heilbronn. In 1902, a normal gauge minor railway westwards to Wiesloch-Walldorf on the Rhine Valley Railway was opened, during World War II a bridge on the line eastbound was destroyed by retreating German troops, and in 1971 the line was shortened to Aglasterhausen. Since 2009 and 2010, these two lines have been incorporated into the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn, in this way it is possible to reach Heidelberg Hauptbahnhof within 17 minutes. As DB Netz refused during planning of the S-Bahn to incorporate capacities for goods trains and sidings, goods traffic ceased in the late 2000s

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Sandhausen
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Sandhausen is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 7 km south of Heidelberg, Sandhausen belongs to the Rhein-Neckar Metropolitan region. It is known for its sand dune, the first recorded mention of Sandhausen was in 1262. Sandhausen is named after the sand dunes that border the municipality. As early as Roman times, a settlement called Lochheim existed in the area and it was part of Bishopric of Speyer till 1262, when Otto von Bruchsal gave it to Ludwig II, Electoral Palatin. It was part of Oberamt Heidelberg in 1351 and it was sacked by Baden and Württemberg troops at Mainz Diocesan Feud in 1462. It was again sacked by Spanish troops at Thirty Years War in 1622, French ones remained in Sandhausen till 1697. Thus, Sandhausen became part of Bavaria and it was occupied by French troops in 1795 and was awarded to Grand Duchy of Baden after German mediatization in 1803. The mayor of Sandhausen is Georg Kletti, previous mayors were as follows, 1954–1981, Walter Reinhard 1981–2005, Erich Bertsch Lège-Cap-Ferret, France, since 1980 In the past, hops were grown in Sandhausen. The tobacco industry, which thrived in Sandhausen in the past, is now restricted to the parish of Bruchhausen. The club counts as the smallest professional club in Germany playing the second division of the German league since the 2012-13 season. Markus Friedrich Wendelin, theologian and educator Official website of Sandhausen